xlix, 535 pages 21 cm

Includes bibliographical references (pages xlvii-xlviii)

[Part I] Quakers: First letter to the Delaware Indians / William Penn -- Journal / John Woolman -- Plea for the poor / John Woolman -- Letter to the President of the Continental Congress / Anthony Benezet -- [Part II] Abolitionists: Declaration of sentiments, 1838 / William Lloyd Garrison -- Christian non-resistance / Adin Ballou -- Civil disobedience / Henry David Thoreau -- Philosophy of the abolition movement / Wendell Phillips -- Passive resistance / Elihu Burritt -- [Part III] Anarchists: Speeches in court, 1886 / Michael Schwab and August Spies -- Relation of the state to the individual / Benjamin Tucker -- Anarchism: What it really stands for / Emma Goldman -- [Part IV] Progressives: Moral equivalent of war / William James -- Marx vs. Tolstoi / Clarence Darrow -- Letters from prison, 1917 / Suffragettes -- [Part V] Conscientious objectors, World War I: Statements of conscientious objection, 1917-1918 / Roger Baldwin and others -- Personal reactions during war / Jane Addams -- Atlanta prison, 1917 / Ammon Hennacy -- [Part VI] Trade unionists: Testimony before the industrial relations commission, 1915 / William Haywood -- Sit-down / Joel Seidman -- [Part VII] Conscientious objectors, World War II: Pacifist program in time of war, threatened war or fascism / Richard Gregg -- Why we refused to register / Donald Benedict and others -- Conscientious objectors in prison / Mulford Sibley and Asa Wardlaw -- [Part VIII] Direct Action for peace, post-World War II: Pilgrimage of a conscience / Maurice McCrackin -- Of holy disobedience / A.J. Muste -- "Why I am sailing into the Pacific bomb-test area" / Albert Bigelow -- Visible witness / Wilmer Young -- Quebec-Washington-Guantanamo Walk for Peace, 1963-1964: Discipline of nonviolence -- Peacewalkers' struggle in Albany, Georgia -- Letter by Ray Robinson -- Statement to Recorder's Court, Albany, Georgia -- Letter by Katherine Havice -- Declaration of conscience against the war in Vietnam -- [Part IX] Direct action for civil rights, post- World War II: Pilgrimage to nonviolence / Martin Luther King, Jr. -- CORE and SNCC statements of principle: CORE rules for action -- Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee, statement of purpose -- Jailed-in / Thomas Gaither -- In pursuit of freedom / William Mahoney -- Voter registration, southwest Mississippi, 1961: Walthall County Register / John Hardy -- Mississippi violence vs. human rights -- Statement from the Burgland High School students -- P.T.A. requests readmittance of students -- Statement by a high-school student -- Message from jail / Robert Moses -- Voter registration, southwest Georgia, 1961-1963: Handbill, Albany Nonviolent movement -- Statement by a high-school student -- Lee County report / Jack Chatfield -- Letters from Sumter County jail -- Birmingham Manifesto, 1963 -- Letter from Brmingham City Jail / Martin Luther King, Jr. -- Speech at March on Washington, 1963 / John Lewis -- Nonviolence on trial / Bayard Rustin: Speech to the Fellowship of Reconciliation, 1964 -- Harlem riot and nonviolence -- [Part X] Nonviolent revolution: Preservation of moral values in politics / Reinhold Niebuhr -- Future of nonviolence / David Dellinger

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